KnitWit
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- Comment on Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof 1 week ago:
Wasn’t it Ruby (or sapphire) back in the day? Might’ve just been the cartoon but I think they had that in there at some point. It’s such a weird power that at I think writers just go with whatever they can to carry the story forward.
- Comment on One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs to ignore guardrails 2 weeks ago:
I am almost positive all of these articles like this are still just marketing for AI. Even in these comments, there are multiple ‘I used it and (blah blah ai blah). Seems ripped from the Hot Coffee mod style of interest farming.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 2 weeks ago:
I get what your saying, and if it lead to that then I agree it would be a good thing. But that isn’t what this is or how it is going to move things forward. It’d be like thinking that universities will thrive because Trump is normalizing govt involvement in them over the Harvard threats and expansion beyond.
Linking the altruistic potential of what he is doing to the very obvious extortion is carrying his water in terms of acceptance. It’s the same as what has allowed him to skate in the media for so long instead of calling out what it actually is.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 2 weeks ago:
Intel is just the easy one for people to get on board woth, as they are struggling and have received grants etc. Lutnicknalready said they want to do the same with Lockheed-Martin, who does jot have the same issues, amd expamding from there. I fully disagree with the notion being put forth that this is comparable to other nations ‘socializing’ their industries. This is Trump taking a cut. He attacked Intel, attacked their ceo and m threatened to have him removed. The ceo then bowed and is apparently giving up 10% of the company and is being called a genius by Trump now. It’s extortion.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 2 weeks ago:
Deal hasn’t even been finalized yet, and already they announce its gonna cause problems. Everything he touches turns to shit.
- Comment on Google encouraging healthy uses of their new AI image generator 2 weeks ago:
The fake life on social thing is very weird to me. It’s one (if that) step removed from pathological lying. Idk, I just don’t see how trying to make others jealous of a thing that I never did would make me feel better. I guess it’s the dopamine hit of a ‘like’, but to me it just seems totally disconnected.
I can understand overplaying something you did a little, but to use the article example of a woman laying in a field with an astronaut, is there really that many people going ‘well me and my boyfriend had a great date the other day. Sorry you can’t meet him, he’s back in fucking space. Long distance is hard.’
- Comment on Google encouraging healthy uses of their new AI image generator 2 weeks ago:
I legitimately do not understand how this is a thing that people want. Never in my life have I thought to myself ‘I’d really like a realistic looking photo of myself doing something that did not happen.’ Like, outside of scammers, why is this something somebody would want?
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 2 weeks ago:
Like three days after ‘normalizing trade with the EU’, it’s right back to antagonizing and tariff threats. Who could have seen this sudden reversal coming?
- Comment on US | Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump 3 weeks ago:
I saw someone write a thing about how that aspect puts him as more of a stalin dictator than hitler. Executed so many people for delivering truthful bad news that any grasp on a situation was out of reach.
- Comment on US | Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump 3 weeks ago:
I saw someone write a thing about how that aspect puts him as more of a stalin dictator than hitler. Executed so many people for delivering truthful bad news that any grasp on a situation was out of reach.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
Breonna Taylor would also like a word, but she was killed in a no knock raid on the wrong house while she slept.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 4 weeks ago:
I believe the OP was referring more to consumers of ai in the statement, as opposed to people trying to sell content or whatever, which would be more in line with what you’re saying. I agree with both perspectives and I think the Op i quoted probably would as well. I just thought it was a good description of some of the why ai sucks, but certainly nit all of it.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 4 weeks ago:
Someone on bluesky reposted this image from user @yeetkunedo that I find describes (one aspect of) my disdain for AI.
Text reads: Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they’ve handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it’s done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You’re just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 1 month ago:
It’s ok cuase Maynard has The Remedy. (Sorry for Youtube)
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 1 month ago:
Maybe 45 minutes from there is a little reservoir based vacation are called ‘Kentucky dam village’ that was the location of a family reunion trip that is legendary in my family from 20 something years ago. Also the moment when my immediate family more or less cut off all contact with another part of the family.
- Comment on Single Serve Pudding Cups And Yogurts Are Too Fucking Small. 1 month ago:
Single serve containers are too wasteful. Buy a larger quantity and portion to your hearts content. You’ll likely save money as well. End of rant.
- Comment on What was the first water level in a platformer? 2 months ago:
I’d call frogger a platformer, but the water aspect is only aesthetic. So disagree with OP on that but for different reasons.
- Comment on Will Texas Be an AI Powerhouse from its Energy Mega Campus? 2 months ago:
They are known for their electrical grid, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 2 months ago:
Well, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 2 months ago:
It’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 2 months ago:
They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.
- Comment on US Supreme Court allows third country deportations to resume 2 months ago:
I do love the fact that right after Pakistan put him up for that, he starts an unprovoked war. Everyone gets their face eaten, no exceptions.
- Comment on Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow 2 months ago:
Next geo-engineering proposal: suck all that extra energy into space. Just skim a little off the top, maybe we’ll get some of those greenhouse gases out of here while we’re at it. There’s a lot of atmosphere out there, ok. We’re in an abundance economy with the atmosphere. We could probably stand to lose a little if I’m being honest. I ran the numbers through my bespoke AI, AImosphere, and it really liked the idea.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
Oh no, sounds like I should avoid this reddit you speak of. Any suggestions for alternatives?
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 2 months ago:
I canceled my recurring over this about a week ago, explaining that this was the reason. One of their people sent me a lengthy response that I appreciated. Still going to wait a year before I reinstate it, hopefully they fully move on from this idea by then.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 3 months ago:
Never thought I’d cancel my recurring donation for them, but just sent the email. I hope they change their mind on this, but as I told them, I will not support this.
- Comment on How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made [21:55] | LGR 3 months ago:
A schooner is a sailboat, dummiehead!
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 3 months ago:
Was on Bluesky the other day and saw greg pak posted something along the lines of:
_We’ve successfully recreated the pre-elon twitter experience, but we forgot that it also sucked. _
- Comment on Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159 6 months ago:
Much like all the ‘questions’ about voting back in 2020, almost all of these issues come down to people not knowing how shit works and assuming that means that no one else does. So much misinformation is just partial facts with no context.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 7 months ago:
It appears that you are looking to get all of the benefits of community, while absolving yourself of any of the responsibilities. You want to use someone else’s i stance, without having to follow any of their rules. You want to have your own little safe space to spew whatever it is that obviously goes against community guidelines, but also for that space to be able to interact freely with the community. We don’t want to interact with you on that level, that’s why we are all here, following those rules.
If you really want a place where you can say whatever shitty thing you think everyone eeds to hear, then go make your own instance.
Which will be de-federated from all of these instances.
